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TO: AM BRIEFING BY: DENNIS SMALL/DAVID CHERRY
RE: LAROUCHE DUGGAN SLANDERS BRITISH CHENEY TRAIN
LAROUCHE'S ENEMIES--THEIR LIES BROUGHT YOU THE IRAQ WAR
Lyndon LaRouche has repeatedly noted that he's never had a
single political enemy who has tried to destroy him, who wasn't
thoroughly evil.
The latest round of slanders against LaRouche, launched by
fascist Wall Street banker John Train, through gutter outlets
such as Dennis King's website and other internet blogs, serves to
underscore that very point. The memo published in yesterday's
briefing, "Lynne Cheney, John Train and Dennis King: Obsession
with LaRouche Reaches New Low"-which is now posted prominently on
the LPAC website--explains that the current slander wave "mimics
the campaign run by King, and Lynne Cheney's British
collaborators, in the case of Jeremiah Duggan, who died in 2003
in Germany. Despite the fact that German authorities who
investigated the case ruled the death a suicide, Cheney's
confederates, along with King, have exploited the tragedy by
repeatedly reviving a press campaign challenging the official
investigation, where all official evidence is to the contrary."
EIR has repeatedly documented the links of Lynne Cheney and
her Dick, to the Blair government and other British circles
promoting the Duggan slander--and now the current campaign of
lies against LaRouche. That coverage has included:
* April 20, 2007 EIR--"Blair War Clique Runs Anti-LaRouche
Slander Drive," by Anton Chaitkin
* April 10, 2007 EIR--"Media Locusts Do The Dirty Work for
Cheney, Gore, and Blair," by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
* March 28, 2007 EIR--London `Friends of Dick Cheney and Al
Gore' Behind New Slander of LaRouche
* January 5, 2007 EIR--Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, by
Scott Thompson and Jeffrey Steinberg
* March 18, 2005EIR --"Behind the Kelly/Wilson/Duggan
Affair: Anatomy of a Defamation Campaign"
* June 25, 2004 EIR--"The Bizarre Case of Baroness Symons,"
by Jeffrey Steinberg.
LaRouche emphasized yesterday that the issue in the latest
round of slanders is traced back to no less than the Blair-Cheney
collaboration in fraudulently launching the current Iraq war. It
was the Blair government's lies, in cooperation with Cheney, that
were used to get the U.S. and Britain into the war in Iraq.
Remember how the chronology actually evolved:
April 3, 2003: BBC's "Live Five" news show ran a six-minute
interview with Lyndon LaRouche, where he exposed the Bush and
Blair governments' lies about Iraq's supposed Weapons of Mass
Destruction
May 22, 2003: British Defence Ministry adviser David Kelly
met with BBC and told them that Blair government officials had
"sexed up" their dossier on Iraqi WMD, in order to justify the
intended war against that country.
June 9, 2003: BBC's "Live Five" ran a 12-minute interview
with LaRouche, where he called for Vice President Cheney's
impeachment for faking of Iraq weapons intelligence.
July 12, 2003: The London Guardian ran the first slander,
which accused LaRouche of responsibility in the suicide of the
unstable Jeremiah Duggan.
July 15, 2003: David Kelly was treated savagely by Blair's
goons during his forced testimony to Parliament.
July 17, 2003: Kelly died suddenly, with officials claiming
he had committed suicide.
July 21, 2003: BBC itself broadcast the Duggan slander.
As the Kelly case shows, at the time of his death, LaRouche
was being interviewed on British media and was pushing against
the lies that Cheney and Blair were using to get the United
States and Great Britain into a war in Iraq. Since then, there
have been two prominent cases in which this group--including
Lynne Cheney and John Train and Dennis King, as well as elements
of the current British government--have been the authors of this
kind of operation against LaRouche.
Just to show you the relevance of this, LaRouche commented:
the U.S. {continues} to conduct a war which is based on nothing
but lies by the Bush and Blair governments. That's the way that
little things, in the course of history, relate to how big things
in history come about, LaRouche concluded.
LEADING DEVELOPMENTS
SARKOZY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF FRANCE
PARIS, May 6 (EIRNS)--In what represents a major change in the
French post-war/post-de Gaulle paradigm, 53% of French voters
elected Nicolas Sarkozy to the Presidency of the Republic. A
record participation--more than 86% of the French electorate--
didn't succeed in getting Segolene Royal elected. Royal, whose
results are nonetheless honorable, in light of the machismo in
French society and the fact that she was relatively unknown
before she started, was defeated in great part by her own
political friends, who didn't support the best of her campaign--
an attempt to turn the page on the 1968 anti-authoritarian
paradigm and to engage in dialogue with the people directly
around essential economic and social issues. Royal's defeat was
also her own doing, for not daring to go in the direction of
restoring the FDR/de Gaulle paradigm that LaRouche associate
Jacques Cheminade fought for in his own candidacy.
Sarkozy's ample victory indicates also a turn for the worse
in the French population, away from the FDR/de Gaulle post-war
social model of society in which each individual cares for the
welfare of all others, in particular the least of them, and in
favor of a neo-conservative model of a society where all believe
their interest lies in engaging in a Nietzchean/Darwinian
struggle of the fittest. Sarkozy was elected with the votes of
the extreme right and also, in part, of those of the more right-
wing elements of the UDF party of Francois Bayrou. (cbi)
JACQUES CHEMINADE: REASONS TO BE UNHAPPY AND HAPPY ABOUT THE
ELECTION RESULTS
PARIS, May 6 (EIRNS)--In remarks to his political friends and
followers after the elections, Jacques Cheminade enumerated the
reasons to be both unhappy and happy about those results.
On the tragic side, the election of Sarkozy will provoke the
destruction of the instruments of power and of the constituted
political forces in France. The situation will become totally
explosive in the coming months. Sarkozy will move to destroy the
living standards and the republican culture of the population.
There will be a major development of a Big Brother state, with
people being brought more and more into police files and the
installation of electronic voting systems.
Sarkozy, however, is not power; he is the peon of a
conglomerate of financial interests of which he believes he is
the master, but of which he is in reality the servant. Sarkozy,
recalled Cheminade, received the endorsement of the Washington
Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, the Economist, the
Guardian and the Financial Times. The French government is no
longer that of a Nation State; France will be led from the City
of London and its subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands.
But there are also reasons to be hopeful in such a
situation, stated the former presidential candidate. First of
all, the universe of the Hedge Funds, which is behind the rise to
power of a person like Sarkozy, is on the verge of a financial
collapse. Secondly, an international alliance against those
policies is emerging around China, Russia, and India and with
Putin's orientation towards FDR and the work of LaRouche and the
LYM in the U.S., the possibility exists of a new bridge between
those two countries. Thirdly, the oligarchy is more and more
scared of LaRouche's and the LYM's influence in the U.S., because
the population is becoming involved.
Here, in France, a similar situation is developing, as we
can see in the level of recognition of my efforts and those of
the youth movement, at Segolene's large meeting in Lille, where
some 40 people came to speak to me, gave their names to stay in
contact, and revealed to what extent they follow our website and
what we do. We must bring together this ferment with that of the
mayors and those contacts we have in the suburbs. Had the
Socialists defended my project, they could have won. It is up to
us now, to retake contact with the socialist base and prepare our
own effort in the upcoming legislative elections.
We have three tasks ahead of us, said Cheminade: 1) teach
physical economics to fight the statistical and accounting
recipes used by all the parties; 2) we must continue to attack
the counterculture which destroys the youth; and 3) we must fight
to establish a link between the mayors, the socialist base, and
the suburban youth. Cheminade called on the youth movement to be
the revolutionaries of today, to leave the catacombs to organize
in the major cities of Rennes, Lyon and Lille, and others. (cbi)
FRANCE HAS LOST A BATTLE; WE SHALL WIN THE WAR
{The following is a draft translation of the statement issued in
Paris on May 6 by LaRouche associate Jacques Cheminade.}
Do not try to hide it. The election of Nicolas Sarkozy is a
disaster for France and Europe. It signifies four things:
1) The end of the French exception in foreign policy, and
our submission to the financial oligarchy's rule. For Nicolas
Sarkozy indeed won, thanks to the support of the main American,
British and French media which almost unanimously endorsed him.
2) The confirmation of our economic dependency, because the
policy of our new president will be that of the market, in the
context of a Paris Stock Market under the control of the New York
Stock Exchange and of foreign capital dominating the CAC 40,
notably since Nicolas Sarkozy was Budget Minister under Edouard
Balladur.
3) The labeling and political surveillance of French
citizens, by the multiplication of surveillance cameras, the
integration of the STIC (local police) and JUDEX (national
police) files, the extension of DNA labeling (which is actually
contemplated for the case of two kids who are less than 12 years
old), the use of biometric passports and the detection of "high
risk" children. A man who, in this situation, believes in genetic
determinism is a danger to public liberties.
4) The sabotage of the whole Eurasian policy, which is our
future, for Nicolas Sarkozy supports the wrong America, the one
of Cheney and Bush, and criticizes Putin's Russia, who speaks of
Roosevelt and de Gaulle. He is against all dirigist economic
policies, such as those that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon
LaRouche, Charles De Gaulle, Pierre Mendes-France, and I myself
have supported. He cannot but sabotage the retooling of the world
economy.
France has thus lost a battle. The socialist organizers have
too often fought without the intention of victory -- we have
observed lots of leaflets not distributed in their offices -- and
the left (excluding the socialists) did not mobilize its forces
against the intolerable. An impotent cynicism infected both. For
our part, with our small means, our 120,000 leaflets, our posters
-- "No to a Sarko-Maso France" -- and our enthusiasm, we have
done everything we could to get Segolene Royal elected, our only
thinkable choice. We are happy with what we've done.
In the middle of the coming storms, we are preparing a fight
of organized non-violence from a European and international
perspective. The New Bretton Woods, the Eurasian Land-bridge, a
culture of life not of death, a dialogue of civilizations,
religions and humanism are our yardsticks. Our website offers
everything that changes in the world, and all that we are
changing.
We propose to cooperate with every resistance movement which
fights positively with ideas and proposals, without violence or
resentment. We want to reestablish a republican sensitivity, a
culture of the creative capabilities of the human being, that of
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur, of Jean Jaures and Jean Moulin, as
opposed to the financial counterculture of the violent
videogames, of show business, of gambling (from lottery to
financial derivatives) and of marketed sex, which destroys the
morality and the culture of the population while financial
globalization destroys its standards of living.
We are an international movement. It is our strength. We are
proud of it. For to defeat Nicolas Sarkozy, who is the product of
the support of the international financial forces, an
international movement opposed to it is required.
If we focus on the result of the lost battle, we can give up
in impotence or violence. It would be putting ourselves at the
level of the adversary. We must elevate the level of the debate
to the European and world stage. We are doing it. For it is in
France's historical mission, which is a universal one, that the
defeat of Mr. Sarkozy and those who are backing him will be
written. We will win the war. With our youth movement, and with
our eyes set on the future.
THE QUEEN'S CAYMANS SNAP AT LAROUCHE
May 6 (EIRNS)--Cindy Scotland, the Managing Director of the
Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, which "supervises" and steers
the hedge funds on that British Overseas Territory, wrote a
lengthy letter on April 27 to the editors of Cayman Net News,
protesting their April 16 publication of an article reporting on
EIR's Richard Freeman's expose of the role of the Cayman Islands
as a hedge fund predators' paradise for the British oligarchy.
"People who are aware of how the Cayman Islands financial
services regime operates will know that the Richard Freeman
article, on which your paper reports, is far from accurate,"
Scotland sputtered defensively. She went on to justify the
Caymans' notorious secrecy: "Cayman Islands law, based on English
Common Law, recognises the right of each individual to privacy.
In financial matters, this right is codified in the Confidential
Relationships Preservation Law."
Lyndon LaRouche commented that what Scotland and her
oligarchical patrons are really saying is: "How dare you peek at
the crimes we are committing?"
Scotland may also be concerned at the fact that there is
building momentum among members of the U.S. Congress, including
some senior members on committees with oversight and jurisdiction
on these matters, to pass legislation forcing disclosure of hedge
funds, or outright outlawing of hedge funds--as Lyndon LaRouche
has called for. According to Congressional sources, a delegation
from the Cayman Islands was on Capitol Hill recently, lobbying
against any sort of regulation.
Scotland dared not mention the name of LaRouche or EIR in
her thousand-word letter. The Cayman Net News article, "Research
Website Attacks Cayman Islands Hedge Funds," also chose to omit
reference to LaRouche and the EIR, preferring to ascribe
Freeman's article which first appeared in the March 9 EIR, to a
secondary source, the {Global Research} website.
The Cayman Net News article otherwise quotes accurately and
at length from the Freeman article, including: "Hedge funds had
already bled the international commercial banks and corporations
into absolute bankruptcy," and "combined with their yen
carry-trade... are now driving the financial system further into
systemic breakdown... With the power accumulated from these
unregulated offshore British outposts led by the Cayman Islands,
the Anglo-Dutch financial oligarchy has assembled an incredible
strike-force, above and against the interest of nation-states."
[ref]
ARGENTINE DAILY PUBLISHES LAROUCHE'S STATEMENT SUPPORTING THE
BANK OF THE SOUTH
May 6 (LPAC)--The LPAC press release announcing Lyndon LaRouche's
support for an Ibero-American initiative to create a "Bank of the
South" -- as an alternative financial architecture for the region
to that of the IMF and World Bank -- was published in full by
"Gente de Buenos Aires," a pro-government daily with both print
and electronic editions, which has covered a number of LaRouche's
comments and initiatives in the past.
It cites www.larouchepac.com as its source, and has a
graphic of the LPAC Spanish-language home page. It can be seen at
http://www.genteba.com.ar/genba07/econo07/may07/0405/econo03.htm
[vfr]
ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
SOUTH KOREAN AND THAI FINANCE MINISTERS WARN OF DOLLAR COLLAPSE
AND GLOBAL FINANCIAL SHOCK
May 6 (EIRNS)--Further falls of the U.S. dollar due to the U.S.
trade deficit could blow out the world financial system, South
Korean Finance Minister Kwon O-kyu warned today at the ongoing
annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank in Kyoto, Japan.
Reuters quoted Kwon warning about trade and other imbalances in
the economy: "Any abrupt and disorderly unwinding of these
imbalances may send a tremendous shock through the global
financial markets."
Thai Finance Minister Chalongphob Sussangkarn is also openly
worried: "Should the financial markets lose confidence in the
U.S. dollar, huge capital outflows from the U.S. could lead to a
rapid depreciation of the U.S. dollar, and thus dramatic
appreciation of other currencies," Chalongphob said in his
speech. (mmc)
LAROUCHE RESPONDS TO SOME DISORIENTED CHATTER FROM ASIA ON HOW TO
ADDRESS THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
LaRouche took note of "disoriented chatter" coming from
Asian circles in recent days, which displays a serious
misunderstanding of the nature of the international crisis. These
reactions do not understand the severity and nature of the
current crisis, LaRouche noted, and end up promoting the idea
that, since the dollar is going to go down, you have to get into
other currencies or combinations of currencies now, and run away
from the dollar.
This is a London line, LaRouche emphasized, which in
{effect}, rhetoric aside, is the same as the recent proposal by
Benn Steil, published in the CFR's {Foreign Affairs}, calling for
a three-currency system.
An example of this was the discussion by Asian Finance
Ministers at the Asian Development Bank meeting, of measures to
pool some part of their huge dollar reserves, which total some
$3.1 trillion, about 65% of total world reserves. Associated
Press quoted Japanese Finance Minister Koji Omi saying that Asia
should expand its "currency swaps" and other measures to support
national currencies as necessary. "Pooling those funds in a
multilateralization process would constitute a major step
forward," Omi said May 4. "If there's one lesson we learned from
'97, it is that you better stand on your own two feet and you
better be able to help yourself before others help you," ADB
Managing Director General Rajat Nag said. "I think there should
be a mechanism by which countries of the region come to each
other's help." (mmc/dns)
ARGENTINE MEDIA REPORTS HAPPILY ON IMF'S DISTRESS
May 6 (EIRNS)--Argentina's daily "Pagina 12" reports today that
the IMF's financial situation is so bad, that a memo is
circulating from its Finance office warning "with some urgency"
of the need to find "a new mechanism for financing" the
institution. The IMF deficit is now estimated at $1 billion.
Argentina under President Nestor Kirchner went to the mat
against the IMF and the vulture funds, and succeeded in imposing
a unilateral 65% write-down of the country's public debt in 2005.
Now, according to a Knack consulting firm poll covered by the
Argentine press agency Telam, 71% of Argentines feel either
"optimistic" or "very optimistic" about the performance of the
national economy. [crr]
WARREN BUFFETT COVERS BUTT, DENOUNCES DERIVATIVES AS `FINANCIAL
WMD'
May 6 (EIRNS)--In an address to 27,000 people attending an annual
shareholders meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. holding
company in Omaha May 5, billionaire Warren Buffett went out of
his way to warn that the "fool's game" of derivative and
hedge-fund speculation was going to end in disaster, and called
derivatives the financial equivalent of "weapons of mass
destruction," according to an account in the Wall Street Journal.
Lyndon LaRouche noted that Buffett is just covering his
butt, and trying to come out as the hero of the collapse--or he
is contending for that position.
"`The introduction of derivatives has totally made any
regulation of margin requirements a joke,' said Mr. Buffett,
referring to the U.S. government's rules limiting the amount of
borrowed money an investor can apply to each trade. `I believe we
may not know where exactly the danger begins and at what point it
becomes a super danger. We don't know when it will end precisely,
but ... at some point some very unpleasant things will happen in
markets.'" Buffett added, "There is an electronic herd of people
around the world managing an amazing amount of money. I think
it's a fool's game."
According to a Financial Times report on the same speech,
Buffett also referred to the subprime market as "dumb lending and
dumb borrowing," but added--dumbly--that he did not think the
danger would spread to the rest of the economy. [vfr]
GOLDMAN SACHS DIRECTOR: AMERICANS MUST SACRIFICE FOR GOLDMAN
SACHS... I MEAN, FOR THE WAR ON ISLAMIC TERROR
May 6 (EIRNS)--Robert Hormats, vice-chairman and managing
director of Wall Street's Goldman Sachs International banking and
investment firm, penned a column in today's Washington Post
demanding that American citizens foot the bill for the
Bush/Cheney administration's permanent warfare strategy.
Hormats, who recently authored a book entitled "The Price of
Liberty: Paying for America's Wars," perversely compares the cost
of the American Revolution, Civil War, and America's part in
World War II to that of today's "global fight against radical
Islamic terrorism," saying the Bush government should take a
lesson from Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and FDR, all of
whom demanded that Americans "pay the price for freedom" through
war bonds, debt repayment, higher taxes, and sacrifice. With the
skyrocketting costs of today's war against Al Qaeda (an estimated
$503 billion since 9/11, says Hormats), America's leaders need to
be honest with the public about the costs of that war and the
public's responsibility to share in the costs.
Goldman Sachs made the largest profit of any firm on Wall
Street last year, at $9.34 billion, up 93% over the previous
year. [vfr]
UNITED STATES
REP. RANGEL: BUSH `HAS TO STOP LISTENING TO DICK CHENEY'
May 6 (EIRNS)--Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) bluntly stated
this morning on CBS's Face the Nation, that "we want to stop the
war and we want to bring the troops home," and that means, among
other things, making it clear to President Bush that "he has to
stop listening to Dick Cheney."
There is broad popular opposition to the war, Rangel noted.
"I think the American people have spoken. The lack of popularity
of the President has everything to do with the war. And we must
follow the people's mandate and do everything that we can to send
a message to President Bush that we want to stop the war and we
want to bring the troops home. So, if you want to talk about
repealing his authority or cutting the funds or setting a
timetable, whatever has to be done, he has to stop listening to
Dick Cheney." [vfr]
BUSH PLUNGES TO NIXON LEVELS OF UNPOPULARITY IN THE POLLS
May 6 (EIRNS)--A poll just published by Newsweek magazine reveals
that President George W. Bush has "the worst approval rating of
an American president in a generation." Bush's public approval
rating is now down to 28%, fast approaching Nixon's historic low
of 23%.
Newsweek writes about the results of the Princeton Survey
Research Associates May 2-3 poll, "It's hard to say which is
worse news for Republicans: that George W. Bush now has the worst
approval rating of an American president in a generation, or that
he seems to be dragging every '08 Republican candidate down with
him. ... Perhaps that explains why Republican candidates,
participating in their first major debate this week, mentioned
Bush's name only once, but Ronald Reagan's 19 times." [vfr]
SOUTHWEST ASIA
CHENEY WILL PUSH ISRAELI STRIKES AGAINST IRAN
May 6 (EIRNS)--Vice President Dick Cheney departs on Tuesday, May
8, on a six-day tour of four key Middle Eastern nations, and
senior intelligence sources in the United States and the region
believe that the top item on the Veep's agenda will be a military
confrontation with Iran. According to one leading Arab analyst,
due to intensive opposition within the United States military,
diplomatic, and intelligence communities, Cheney will press for
an Israeli attack on Iran, ostensibly over Iran's refusal to shut
down its nuclear enrichment program. Once such an Israeli strike
is launched, Cheney and his backers reason, Congressional and
public opposition to a showdown with Tehran will evaporate, and
the United States will step in to back Israel.
Other sources who share this evaluation have pointed to a
number of recent developments, highlighting the preparations for
a war against Iran. The Bush Administration has provided Israel
with smart bombs and with the latest generation Patriot
anti-missile batteries in recent months. Furthermore, in an
interview with the German magazine Focus on April 28, Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted warning that Israel had the
capacity to launch 1,000 cruise missile strikes against Iranian
targets over a ten-day period.
Last month, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
traveled to Washington, where he conferred privately with Vice
President Cheney, and then addressed the annual Washington, D.C.,
convention of AIPAC. In his speech to the Israeli lobby group,
Netanyahu equated Iran with Nazi Germany in 1938, and vowed that
Israel would strike Iran before the Islamic Republic obtained the
capability to build a nuclear weapon. In the wake of the
Winograd Commission interim report, strongly criticizing the
Olmert government's handling of the Summer 2006 Lebanon war,
Netanyahu has launched a drive to unseat Olmert through a vote of
no confidence in the Knesset, and return to power. So far,
according to Washington and Israeli sources, Netanyahu is at
least five Knesset votes short of the required 61 needed to
replace Olmert. Polls in Israel show that, were there to be
early elections, a Netanyahu-led rightwing coalition would win.
Cheney's six-day trip will take him to Saudi Arabia, the
United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Egypt. All four countries are
leading Sunni allies of the United States, who have been under
pressure from Cheney and National Security Council Middle East
director Elliot Abrams, to ally with Israel in a politico-
military coalition against Iran, since Cheney's Nov. 2006 visit
to Riyadh. [js_]
IRANIAN AND SWISS REPRESENTATIVES DISCUSS RESTARTING NUCLEAR
TALKS
May 6 (EIRNS)--This news news service is currently seeking
confirmation of the report in today's Tehran Times, that Iranian
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met a Swiss envoy on the
sidelines of the just-ended Sharm al-Sheikh conference, and
accepted a Swiss proposal for restarting talks on the nuclear
program.
This had been discussed also at an April 25-26 meeting
between Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and European
Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Turkey. The Swiss
approach includes a staged plan leading to a simultaneous
suspension of Iran's uranium enrichment work and of U.N.
sanctions.
"Mottaki welcomed the Swiss proposal for the continuation of
talks on Iran's peaceful nuclear programme," Tehran Times said.
(mlm)
DOCUMENTATION
JACQUES CHEMINADE INTERVIEWED ON PHILIPPINE RADIO
{Following are excerpts of an interview with Jacques Cheminade,
on Radio Show "Ang at Katipunan," run by the Philippine LaRouche
Society and broadcast nationwide over DZXL (Radio Mindanao
Network) on Sunday, May 6 and hosted by Butch Valdes.}
Cheminade: They are afraid of LaRouche in these financial circles
in the United States, this financial oligarchy, as they are
afraid here in France of me. They have launched all kinds of
Venetian schemes to freeze our political money flows. They have
ruined myself, but Im still there, and with a youth movement in
the red. So, what they want to promote is the Sarkozy government.
Candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has been picked up to launch
police-state measures. He wants to launch a neo-conservative
Revolution, ultra-liberal, of the type Newt Gingrich wanted to
launch in the United States, a right-wing Jacobin kind of
revolution. And he has been picked up, which is extraordinary, as
a candidate, endorsed as a candidate, by the Washington Post, the
Wall Street Journal, Newsweek in the United States, and by the
Financial Times, the Economist and most of the British press. So
we have this situation.
He wants to impose a police state government, with all the
police state measures. This would mean cameras to control people
in the streets, like in England, controlling the polling
agencies, controlling the population with voting measures like in
the US, electronic voting machines--rigged--, electronic
passports, and DNA-based control of the population. And they have
all kinds of police information that they communicate with the
firms, that they communicate to everybody, and they create the
kind of conditions of a Big Brother state, and this, in the
situation of the disintegration of the world economic and
financial system, they want to impose that through Sarkozy who
personally believes in genetics.
He says he believes in biological determinism. That is, if
you are a pedofile, or a homosexual, or something like that, it's
because of genetic reasons. So, to put people in a box like you
put insects in a box and select them, and you give something to
the very poor to maintain and control them, and you promote 10%
to the upper levels of the population. So, that's really a
fascist type of state.
Valdes: Very similar to what Hitler was trying to do.
Cheminade: Yeah.
Valdes: Okay, Mr. Cheminade, you were a presidential candidate in
the first part of the election, and then you had to turn your
support to the opponent of Sarkozy, Ms. Royal. Now, Why is this
and what do you expect to happen in the counting?
Cheminade: Well, there are two reasons for that. First, that
Sarkozy is the worst of the worst that you can imagine. And we
are fighting a war, and we want to avoid the worst to be in
power. The second is that Royal is a kind of funny character. She
is a woman and she has been the opposition to all the old
Socialist elephants in the Socialist Party. She's quite confused
ideologically, but personally she at least brought back two
things: the attack against the financial oligarchy. She said she
was going to try to be independent from those financial circles
internationally, and she's disliked by the Bush administration
for that. She's disliked by Rohatyn, she's disliked by Shultz,
she's disliked even in England now. At the beginning, she was
supporting Tony Balir, like Chavez in Venezuela who supported
Tony Blair in the beginning, but now, seeing whats happening and
what forces are launched against her, she's no longer supporting
Blair in the same way.
And, she second, introduced in the Socialist base, she
introduced morality. In the past, the Socialists were in a kind
of Boomer explosion of liberalism, libertarianism and so on and
so forth. She said that certain behavior by the youth should be
changed, and you need to put back education in the first place in
the nation, and at the same time to help the poor and the
handicapped.
In the debate with Sarkozy on television, one of the issues
was her defense of the handicapped against Sarkozys illusions or
magic, who said that the families of handicapped should go to the
courts, and the courts would help them. How long would this take,
she asked, and he said, five years! So, this is the whole sophist
theory of Sarkozy that she attacked, and she had, in that sense,
a certain type of character which would make her react to
injustice.
Her program otherwise is not good. She brings back a sense
of morality into political life, shes against the financial
oligarchy, shes for social measures for the poor and the worker,
but she has no sense of what nuclear energy is. At the beginning,
she said we want to reduce the portion of nuclear energy in the
supply of electricity in France from 80 to 50%, but now she has
shifted, she wants 80% and she wants to go to the fourth
generation of reactors, the high-temperature reactor, and she
called for it, so she has changed. She has a certain ability to
change, and that's very interesting in her.
But what's also very interesting is our connection with the
Socialist youth. Before we took sides for her in the first and
second round, and especially now, we are working together with a
portion of the Socialist youth who have no ideas and no landmarks
in politics. They have very little to figure out. So when they
seeus , they are automatically very impressed, and all the
slanders that were launched against us fall down. So we have a
very interesting situation, where we are intervening in all the
meetings of the Socialist Party, and they are very very
interested.
I was myself in Lille, in norhtern France, a city of one
million and a half inhabitants, and there was a rate of
recognition that was unbelievable. People asked me to sign our
leaflets, they said our leaflets were better than Royal's
leaflets. They wanted our programs, they have no program
themselves, no coherent program. And they said, "That Cheminade,
he's back, he's back, he's back." They thought I had disappeared
since 1985 because the press ostracized me, but now, seeing our
youth movement in all parts of the nation, there is a reaction to
see, here is a point of sanity and we have to rally that....
LYM Question: My question is, based on the recent Moscow
convention that a tunnel will be made to connect Russia and
Alaska, it's underway, are there any near term plans to connect
Europe with Asia, following the same principle of Lyn and Helga's
Eurasian Landbridge?
Cheminade: There is a lot of discussion about it, but not much is
done because there are no governments, as I said before. We are
in a situation of ungovernability, and the governability at this
point cannot come from France or Germany. It has to come from a
United States, where Bush and Cheney are going to be
impeached--and we should win that fight--connected to Russia,
India and China, the big four. Then France will join, and in
certain areas, France is already joining. For example, there is a
very interesting example of cooperation between the French and
the Russians. The Russian Soyuz rocket is going now to be
launched from French Guyana. This is going to start in 2009,
within the context of French-Russian space cooperation program
which is quite advanced.
So you have these type of programs, but there is not an
overall policy, and the Eurasian Landbridge can only be connected
to the Bering Strait project, only if there is a combination of
forces strong enough to impose it against the financial
oligarchy. At this point, we do not have this combination of
forces, and this can only come from the combination of a United
States inspired by a LaRouche-Roosevelt approach, Putin in Russia
also inspired by Roosevelt, as he said, the Chinese, and India.
There is a portion of the Indian Establishment that knows Lyn
very very well, and is very interested in that approach.
So this is a way to make it work, and Segolene Royal went to
China, and had declarations quite favorable to Russia. So that is
interesting in terms of what we could see coming in the future if
she's elected. At this point, it doesn't seem that she's going to
be elected. Sarkozy is said to be ahead, and we'll have to lead a
tremendous resistance to Sarkozy, to impose a shift, a change, an
orientation towards the Eurasian Landbridge/Bering Straits/
development of Asia combination. And this is what we are fighting
for. We are known for that. We are known on the streets and in
the Socialist Party as the Eurasian Landbridge party.
LYM Question: How would we stop this fascism happening in France.
What's the crucial role of the LaRouche movement in France,
especially the LaRouche Youth Movement, in saving France against
these fascist leaders, against the bankers?
Cheminade: We have about 30-40 members in the LaRouche Youth
Movement, and that's only for money reasons. We'd have much more
if not for the money reasons. They have been working together in
the catacombs of our office. It's like the first Christians. It's
a kind of basement of catacombs where they're working. They are
doing fine. They're studying Kepler, in combination with what we
are doing in the basement in Virginia with our youth in the
United States, and their chorus work is improving, even if they
are isolated in what they are doing. So the combination of the
chorus work and Kepler is giving them a strong sense of identity
within the historical process in which we are.
So they fight alot, every day, along with me in deployments
throughout the country, in particular within the Young Socialist
Movement, to spread our ideas and our views. So this works, in a
certain way, and it went upstairs to Segolene Royal.
For example, we had in Le Canard Enchaine, which is
humoristic paper with 500,000 copies per week, which is a lot,
and they say Royal's slogan is "No to the Sarko-Maso France,"
which is a pun on sado-masochism or on Sarkozy. So this is
exactly our poster that we put out a year and a half ago in an
electoral campaign against Sarkozy. So now, it's out in all
France and people are saying, "Oh ho, so you are the inventors of
this. How funny. It's good what you are doing! It's very
interesting."
When I was in Lille, for example, a lot of people asked
me--because I was out in the field with the youth--they asked me
to sign the leaflets, so there's a lot a lot of recognition. At
the same time, we're trying to reach the upper strata of French
politics, especially the French economists, to help them wake up
to the reality of a challenge. So this doesn't happen in France
little by little. France is a country where the oligarchical
principle and the constitutional republican principle are always
in a state of confrontation, of direct confrontation, very
violent sometimes. So it will emerge at some point as a change,
and it will be a reward for all the work that we've been doing
for years and years.
We have a very nice Solidariteetprogres website. If you have
a moment, check it, it's very good, of the same type as the LPAC
in the US. We have on the one side of the website what's
happening new in the world, and on the other side how we're
shaping events. So we have our activities on the one side, and
the latest news on the other. And the youth, this gives a sense
of identity to everyone on our side.
When we had a meeting at the stadium in Paris, or in the
city of Lille, some young socialist came up and said, Oh how good
is your website since it's been changed. And it had been changed
just two days ago. So this proves how a number of people are
watching and following it to see what we have to say. Also, we
put out a leaflet against the Sarkozy power with all the
police-state measures, and this has been circulating all around,
and certain of the Christian Democrats who are caught in a
dilemma, because some don't want to go with the Socialists and
some don't want to go with Sarkozy, and they don't know what type
of "no" to keep in their minds, to say "yes" to the other side.
So this description of the Sarkozy police state has also very
important impact in the main cities of France.
So we have done a lot of work, at least distributed 150,000
leaflets throughout the country, and in many cities like Lyon,
which is the second city of France, or in Paris or in the
suburbs, we have distributed more leaflets than the Young
Socialists, because the youth are no more directly involved in
politics. So we are thirty or forty in the youth movement, and
people thinnk we are a hundred because we are all over the place.
They say, how is it that you are so many? How can you do it?
Valdez: Thirty making the work of 3,000.
Cheminade: Not yet, but many many hundreds. The Young Socialists
have 6,000 members, but in fact no more than 50 or 60 deploy....
[To be concluded]
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BERLIN: LYM INTERVENES AT CLIMATE CONGRESS
May 5, 2007
On Saturday, May 5, we intervened at the "McPlanet"
congress, which is supposedly on the subject of man-made climate
change and justice, organized by ATTAC, Greenpeace and the
Heinrich Boell Foundation, and held at the Technical University
in Berlin. Since we had already had two meetings this week
(webcast on Tuesday, and townhall meeting on Thursday), we
skipped the regular student meeting, and all, including contacts,
went to the intervention.
We started out with about ten organizers and a booktable
outside the main building. There were lots of people there (at
the conference, there was a total of 1700 guests), and our
deployment had a magnetic effect. We saturated the place with
Helga's leaflet on Al Gore and Environment Minister Sigmar
Gabriel, and the Schreibtischtaeter II pamphlet. Each organizer
was constantly in conversations.
As expected, there were lots of freakouts from participants
as well as from the organizers of the conference, who had their
table next to ours, and asked us to pack up, since they didn't
want to be associated with us.
However, we totally dominated the area, and the general
sentiment was that "you see these BueSo people everywhere."
Andreas W. talked to some people from Hamburg, who had
already seen the Channel 4 documentary, and wanted to keep in
touch.
Sergej, dressed up as a butt plug salesman, was walking
around with a box full of butt plugs, a cap with the words "Your
anus can make a difference," and a sign saying: "Flatulence
Control: Reduce Your CO2 Emissions! Newest Technology Here!"
Inside his box, there were pictures of people who were already
satisfied customers, such as Al Gore, Jane Fonda, and German
counterculture icon Xavier Naidoo, with accompanying quotes: "A
chance for everyone to do something!" (Gore) "You won't regret
it: a wonderful feeling." (Fonda) "To really appreciate our
Earth, you have to share a part of its pain. A totally new
experience." (Naidoo)
He was asking people if they were CO2 responsible, and
offered a chance for everybody to repent their sins by purchasing
their own personal plug, which is now being introduced on the
German market.
No income was made this way, but a lot of fun was had, and
the butt plug seller was the center of attention outside the main
entrance. Visitors were curiously drawn in, to figure out what
was going on, and most of them went off laughing hysterically.
Some women came up, and, after examining the goods, exclaimed:
"Oh, it's shapeable!" Sandra made a contact, a radical leftie,
who thought it was a great idea with the butt plugs.
The butt plug man also approached the head of the Green
Party, Reinhard Buetikofer, who was being interviewed by a camera
team, and asked if he was using these devices. No response,
though.
Inside the building, there was a "late night talk" on the
subject, "Do we need a revolution?" Speakers were Buetikofer,
head of Greenies; Jennifer Morgan, former head of WWF's climate
change program; Sven Giegold, ATTAC; and Guillaume Paoli, from
the "happily unemployed." The audience was mostly students from
Berlin, and green youth. There was no discussion on climate
change, since all agreed, by consensus, that it is caused by
manmade CO2.
Mrs. Morgan thought that it is catastrophic for the climate
that 30 new coal power plants are being planned in Germany, and
we should sabotage this in the same way as we stopped the nuclear
power plants. Giegold, ATTAC, said: "We must stop Africa from
having the same development as Europe. The Stern Report must be
realized for a `just world-economic order.'"
At this point, Jenny from the LYM stood up: "I have seen on
CNN that this is all a lie!" The panel discussion stopped
abruptly, and the whole room was silent. Then, Portia, LYM, got
up: "You unbeliever! Sinner! Stop this bullshit!" People cheered
Portia on as she screamed, "Justice for Africa!" The moderator
asked for a democratic vote in terms of who claps the loudest for
or against Jenny speaking. The loudest cheering was, of course,
against, and Jenny had to sit down again, but there was a visible
tension that lasted until the discussion was opened for the
public.
By this time, Portia had gained massive support from the
green punk youth, egging her on to stand up and be the first one
to speak. She said: "Finally, someone from the South is allowed
to speak! You are dancing around the real issue. As in the Stern
Report, and what Al Gore says, the real problem is
overpopulation. Prince Philip, the founder of WWF, wanted to come
back as a deadly virus, so that we take care of overpopulation in
every generation. Is this not what you are really talking about?"
People were shocked and started jeering. The unemployed guy
nervously said that there is another way, and we don't have to go
that far, while the greenie cited Sweden as a good example of how
sustainable growth works with the population.
Next was Ilja, playing the part of the Nazi: "We are not
radical enough." [great cheers] "You are not for a real
revolution. I'm a philosophy student from the HU." [more cheers]
"Nietzsche already said that we should have euthanasia and
sterilization." Moderators: "Are you serious?" Ilja: "We have
only 15 years to save the planet!" Some in the audience took him
seriously and went hysterical. The unemployed guy said: "Maybe
you should start with yourself." Afterwards, a young woman from
ATTAC approached Ilja: "What you said that was so courageous.
It's a bit extreme, but you are right."
One of our boomer members intervened addressing LaRouche's
New Bretton Woods as a solution for the bankrupt world financial
system, at which point the ATTAC guy started spitting bile,
slandering the BueSo and LaRouche. He said that our material was
"unbearable," but our analysis was partially true. He got cheers
from the audience.
Tobi made the last intervention directly after, pointing out
that the greens are still against the development of Africa.
Audience: "BueSo, booo!" Tobi said that CO2 is a fraud and that
everyone should see the Great Global Warming Swindle. The ATTAC
guy started protesting angrily, that this conference was being
used for special interests. Jennifer Morgan flipped out: "These
climate deniers! I've had enough! We have only 13 years!"
This is just one of many Nuremberg-style rallies that the
sponsors of green fascism are orchestrating around Berlin. The
purpose of which, is the "Gleichschaltung" of credulous youth.
[Sergej Strid]
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